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BMW takes the wraps off the i4, its first all-electric sedan

BMW plans to have 25 electrified cars in its lineup by 2025 and it’s taking a few more steps in this direction this year with the launch of the all-electric iX SUV and the i4 sedan. Today, for t

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Arrival to open a second US microfactory to build electric vans for UPS

Arrival, the UK electric vehicle startup that will soon be a publicly traded company, plans to build a second microfactory in the United States.The announcement comes several months after Arrival pick

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Swell Energy’s new deal in New York shows how the company plans to spend the $450 million it’s raising

Back in December, Swell Energy said it would be raising $450 million to support the development of distributed power projects in three states. Now, with the announcement of a deal between the venture-

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Norrsken Foundation is closing on an oversubscribed impact venture fund at 125 million euros

About four years ago, social impact organization Norrsken Foundation launched a small program investing around EUR30 million in capital it had received from its wealthy patron, Klarna co-founder Nikla

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Could another Sunnylands Summit be just around the corner?

Center and Gardens at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, where Chinese President Xi Jinping met with then U.S. President Barack Obama on June 7, 2013. /Getty Editor's note: Andrew Korybk

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Could another Sunnylands Summit be just around the corner?

Center and Gardens at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, where Chinese President Xi Jinping met with then U.S. President Barack Obama on June 7, 2013. /Getty Editor's note: Andrew Korybk

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Three energy-innovation takeaways from Texas’ deep freeze

Individual solutions to the collective crisis of climate change abound: backup diesel generators, Tesla powerwalls, “prepper” shelters. However, the infrastructure that our modern civilization relies

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Beijing denounces Quad's attempt to hype up 'China threat'

Leaders of the Quad, or the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, comprising Australia, India, Japan and U.S., held their first summit via video-conferencing, February 12, 2021. /White House Beijin

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Chinese roadmap by 2060 for a carbon neutral future

On 12 December, 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced new 2030 climate targets via video link to the Climate Ambition Summit organized by the UN, the UK and Fran

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Should there be some law against raising three times in one year?

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Wan

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Extra Crunch roundup: Coupang and Roblox debut, driving GPT-3 adoption, startup how-tos, more

Extra Crunch publishes a variety of article types, but how-tos are my favorite category.For many entrepreneurs, the startup they are trying to get off the ground might be only the second entry on thei

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Serimmune launches new immune response mapping service for COVID-19

Immune intelligence startup Serimmune hopes to better understand the relationship between antibody epitopes (the parts of antigen molecules that bind to antibodies) and the SARS-CoV-2 virus.The compan

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China going all-in on a clean energy future

Wind turbines in Weining County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 27, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Bobby Naderi is a London-based journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and tel

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U.S. must slash emissions by at least 57% to meet Paris climate target

The Cascade Mountain Range is enveloped in the fog in Oregon State, the U.S., as the wildfire spreads on the country's west coast, September 21, 2020. /CFP The United States needs to set a tar

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New permafrost stability map on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau released

Chinese researchers recently released a new permafrost stability distribution map and the corresponding ground temperature dataset over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known

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Facebook challenges FTC’s antitrust case with Big Tech’s tattered playbook

Facebook has challenged the FTC’s antitrust case against it using a standard playbook that questions the agency’s arguably expansive approach to defining monopolies. But the old arguments

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Chinese Foreign Minister's responds to hot button issues

05:06 Editor's note: During China's 2021 Two Sessions, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi answered 27 questions from global journalists. CGTN Anchor Wang Guan says Wang Yi directly addre